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We examined 48 tadpoles, all from Mount Manengouba: ZMB 78499 (two tadpoles, Gosner stages 25 &amp; 40, Ebonemin,
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); ZMB 78500 (eight tadpoles, Gosner stages 25 &amp; 42, Ebonemin,
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); ZMB 78501 (one tadpole, Gosner stage 25, Ebonemin,
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); ZMB 78503 (one tadpole Gosner stage 25, Ebonemin,
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); ZMB 78504 (two tadpoles, Gosner stages 25 &amp; 27, Caldera,
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); ZMB 78505 (two tadpoles, Gosner stage 25 &amp; 28, Caldera,
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); ZMB 78507 (three tadpoles, Gosner stage 25, Manengouba village,
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); ZMB 7850809 (six tadpoles and one tadpole, respectively, Gosner stage 25, MBouroukou,
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); ZMB 78511 (one tadpole, Gosner stage 25, Nkack,
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); ZMB 78513 (five tadpoles, Gosner stage 25, Pastoral Nkongsamba,
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); ZMB 7851416 (two tadpoles, eight tadpoles and six tadpoles, respectively; Gosner stages 25 &amp; 26, Pastoral Nkongsamba,
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altitude. These riverbanks were covered with forest and farmbush vegetation (
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).
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<paragraph id="8B9F36EFFF88FFE6FA925717FD60FD63" blockId="9.[151,1437,151,645]" pageId="9" pageNumber="38">The description is based on ten genotyped tadpoles (ZMB 7850001, 7850304, 7850709, 78511, 78513, 78515) at Gosner stage 25. Body length/total length ratio and description of tail tips was based on non-genotyped specimens of the same developmental stage.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B954EAFDFF88FFE6FAC25309FEF4F9A9" bold="true" box="[151,275,1594,1616]" pageId="9" pageNumber="38">FIGURE 8.</emphasis>
Dorsal (a) and lateral view (b) of
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with sketches of the mouthpart in frontal view (c) and jaw sheaths with caniniform projections (d); scale bars: 1 mm.
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<emphasis id="B954EAFDFF88FFE6FA9253A8FE86F952" bold="true" box="[199,353,1691,1716]" pageId="9" pageNumber="38">Morphology.</emphasis>
Long but robust tadpole with long tail and very broad muscular tail axis; body elliptical in dorsal and robust and pointed in lateral view (
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a, b); body length 28.3 ± 2.4% (N= 31) of total length; body height 42.2 ± 3.9% (N= 10) of body length; body width 54.0 ± 4.2% (N= 10) of body length, maximum body width on level of spiracle insertion; snout truncate to nearly rounded in dorsal view; nostrils oval and situated laterally; nostrils equidistant from eye and snout tip; eye diameter 12.7 ± 0.9% (N= 10) of body length; inter-orbital distance slightly smaller than inter-nostril; tail fins narrow; dorsal fin mostly originating posterior to tail base (exceptionally fin insertions at or slightly anterior to tail base were observed); narrow dorsal fins, reaching deepest point posterior to mid-tail, slightly deeper than ventral fin; ventral fin originates at level with tail base, runs almost parallel to tail axis; tail tip rounded; tail axis very broad and muscular in dorsal and lateral view; body height 91.0 ± 4.1% (N= 10) of total tail height; maximum height of tail axis 69.1 ± 5.9% (N= 9) of maximum tail height; vent tube dextral; lateral sacs present, extending from spiracle to end of body, covering lower two thirds of flanks; short sinister spiracle, translucent, opening lateral, not visible in dorsal view, originating at mid-body; mouth opening frontal; labial tooth row formula 0/0; both jaw sheaths completely keratinized; upper jaw narrow, almost rectangular, slightly bent, distinctly and uniformly serrated; lower jaw U-shaped, distinctly serrated with a lateral pair of caniniform projections (fangs), median part with six to seven needle-like cusps (
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d;
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Channing
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: 8); two distinct serrations abaxial to fangs; posterior lip huge semicircular to oval bean shaped, covered with 21 papillae (
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Channing
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: 20); arrangement of papillae symmetric to vertical body axis; papillae arranged in two semicircular rows (
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c); straight to semicircular skin fold on lower lip, just posterior to lower jaw sheath; oral disc width 34.0 ± 2.6% (N= 10) of body length; mouth width 26.2 ± 3.2% (N= 10) of oral disc width.
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The most advanced individuals (ZMB 78499, Gosner stage 40; ZMB 78500, three tadpoles of Gosner stages 4042) measured
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). A few tadpoles of Gosner stages 2526 even reached
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total length.
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Channing
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reported
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total length.
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measured metamorphs, still possessing
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tails, with
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SVL.
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<emphasis id="B954EAFDFF8BFFE5FA9257BCFDEDFD4E" bold="true" box="[199,522,655,680]" pageId="10" pageNumber="39">Coloration in preservation.</emphasis>
Pale brown body and tail; dorsal parts of body and entire tail axis heavily mottled with little dark spots; ventral parts lighter; fins with very few dark markings, translucent cream white; some individuals with cream-white snout.
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